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Brazil needs your help (Or, abhorrent fashion trends)

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deja_vroom

11:21 / 12.01.04

gingerbop asked, in another thread, "who decides which and why such abominations will return to the public eye(referring to mullets)?"

This... thing is taking over down here. One cannot turn the TV on without seeing some celeb wearing it. This is one of the most discrete models, mind you. We need your prayers, we need you to write letters to the papers, most importantly, we need huggles. Huggles are helpful in times of crisis. Yes they are.

ALso: anyone noticing any specially abhorrent fashion trend slowly... slowly... establishing itself in the media? Pic, please!

Olulabelle

11:58 / 12.01.04

I like that hat!

It's a bit multi-coloured I'll give you that, but I've got one in a very similar style except it's brown wool and sort of crochet. And it's my favourite!

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:12 / 12.01.04

Jade, I think that's the kind of hat that should only be worn by those who are able to get away with it, but it can be done... On the wrong person, however, it probably is a little foolhardy. What specifically do you not like about it.

Here's my own bugbear based on the last time I went out in Shoreditch... Hipster boys: wash your hair. Whether it's a badly-cut fauxhawk or straggly locks, that greasy "hey man I don't have time to use shampoo I've been partying all week" look is not going to impress anyone worth their salt. Look at the hipster girls and the strange complex geometries and colour schemes of their hair, and then feel suitably ashamed by your lack of both effort and hygiene. You're playing yourselves. Thank you.

pomegranate

13:24 / 12.01.04

jade, i have a hat like that. i should post a picture of me in it, to show that i do indeed get away w/it. it is a burgundy corduroy.

flyboy, sometimes the hipsters do wash their hair, but you just can't tell for all the product they put in it. i'm not excusing it, though.

Jack Fear

13:25 / 12.01.04

Jade: All I can think is that Milton Nascimento must be due for a comeback.

Bed Head

13:36 / 12.01.04

Another vote here for the hat likers, and yah boo to any haters. It’s a nice hat! It reminds me of the kind of thing a pearly king would wear, but combined with a sight hint of a Glenn A Larson-style Buck Rogers in the 25th Century computer brain. Which is a good look for 2004, I think.

Incidentally, that’s an iconic style that could really do with a revivalist hipster spin-type thing: bloody pearly kings and queens. That’s a look that rocks hard. That’s what the new Doctor Who should wear.

And. Long hair is a pain to wash. Wash it when it smells, that’s what I say. You want hair you can wash a lot, cut it short already.

Jack Fear

13:53 / 12.01.04

Bed Head: The Edge from U2 went half-pearly (trousers only) back in the Achtung Baby days. It was fairly disconcerting, actually.

Lovely, lovely pearly kings and queens:

More pics to be found at the Pearly Society webpage.

Bed Head

14:02 / 12.01.04

Bless you, Jack. I knew if I just made pathetic references you’d help me out for the accompanying images. But the Edge doesn’t really count in the hipster-revivalist scheme of things, as I see it. I’m talking about young, sexy people with cool hair getting into the whole pearly royalty vibe.

Ethan Hawke

14:25 / 12.01.04

That may be the most joycore dog I've ever seen.

Does this have an American equivalent?

deja_vroom

14:29 / 12.01.04

Ok. Just you wait. I've been trawling the web for that pic I saw once of Billy Corgan wearing one of those, along with matching purple outfit. Then You'll begin to fathom the horror...

Jack: Didn't you know? Milton Nascimento gave up using that thing because apparently someone showed up at a club pretending to be him, and the guy didn't even came close to looking like him... all it was needed was a hat like that and people went "Ooh, it's Milton...", so they let him play and even paid him!

I think he shot the hat point-blank in a fit of rage, a bit like that scene in "Analyze This" where DeNiro shoots the pillow...

rizla mission

14:38 / 12.01.04

And. Long hair is a pain to wash. Wash it when it smells, that’s what I say. You want hair you can wash a lot, cut it short already.

Quite the opposite I'd say..

Long hair has to be washed a lot.. you can get away with a few days of neglect with short hair and not really notice, but basically:

Recently washed fluffy hippy hair waving all over your face = good!

Slightly greasy hair slithering lankly all over your face = NO FUN AT ALL.

Funny this subject should come up.. my bath is currently being torn out and replaced by builders and my time-between-showers is starting to reach crisis point..

Eloi Tsabaoth

14:44 / 12.01.04

Why would you want builders instead of a bath?

Bear

15:06 / 12.01.04

I think it's like the Flintstones they stand around you and give you a good scrub.

The hat rocks, only on certain people as noted before...

Saw a guy on the train the other day with one, along with every other accessory possible it was great, poor guy though you think someone would have stopped him, like his mother...

Char Aina

15:15 / 12.01.04

hate hating +1

i like mullets though... on the right person as you all say, bad fashions can become beautiful, so maybe an alluring and hip mulleted railway-engine driver might get away with the nasty nasty cap above.

Cat Chant

16:23 / 12.01.04

The hat rocks

... also like the Flintstones (BETTY: Why, Wilma! Where did you find those darling hat rocks!)...

rizla mission

20:22 / 12.01.04

Why would you want builders instead of a bath?

Cos I'm so fucking decadent. We were going to go for water nymphs, but builders were all we could get..

gingerbop

21:58 / 12.01.04

I vote for that hat being slightly appauling, but thaty style being fine; Mantis' burgandy cord one particuarly attracts me, as do most burgandy cord things.

Ooh I've inspired a thread. I feel special.

rakehell

02:58 / 13.01.04

Heh. I just spent my lunchtime going to the two hat shops in Melbourne trying to find a hat like that one. No luck.

Can you get one and send it to me, Jade?

no.

why on earth are we talking about hats when the most abhorrent trend to come out of brazil are brazilian bikini waxes, obv.

Whisky Priestess

16:07 / 16.01.04

Not to mention Brazilian bikinis. I mean, they're so tiny I've moved to question their actual existence.

Schrodinger bikinis, hmmm ...

Saveloy

11:05 / 19.01.04

To those of you giving this hat the thumbs-up: if you love Mick Hucknall so much, why don't you go and live there?

I would place this above even the flowerpot hat in the list of detestable objects (category: aesthetics), with the beret (non-military sort) remaining in third place. That said, the flowerpot hat still tops the league of detestable objects in the idealogical category. The wearer of the oversized woolly cap does not inspire the burning rage and hatred that is provoked by the flowerpot wearer, only sadness. It is pathetic, rather than evil.

deja_vroom

15:29 / 19.01.04

Praying mantis: the brazilian bikini wax is something assumed to be there, and its visual recognizance is never direct, only implied by the absence of hair on the sides of a lady's crotch. The visual retina-scorching experience provided by something as ostensive as this:

...is something completely different, and much more appaling!

We have noticed a steady tendency towards silliness in all this. We beg the world to STOP THIS NONSENSE NOW!

Oh Jade, stop fannying around and just do what you’re clearly dying to do, ie to post a photo of yourself in the ‘photos’ thread, only this time sporting an ‘acceptable’ piece of headgear. Barbelith can’t wait.

woooooo-hoooooooooo!

But, er.. as much as I love snarky remarkies... you're cute, but you're wrong! My secret intent behind all this was just to provide a safe space where otherwise serious adults could post pictures of people in silly hats without feeling societal restraints.

Alas!

deja_vroom

16:08 / 19.01.04

And I never "fanny around", sir (or sirette). Nev-ah!

Bed Head

17:31 / 19.01.04

Mmm-hmmmm. Now, why should you assume I’m being “snarkie”, sweetheart? I wouldn’t have figured you to be so insecure. Awww, bless.

And you never “fanny around”, you say? Whatever you take it to mean, you’re beginning to disappoint your adoring public here...

Eloi Tsabaoth

17:50 / 19.01.04

Giant Foam Cowboy Hats should only be worn by Giant Foam Cowboys, and occassionally by Giant Foam Madonna.
Saveloy, you hate berets? Even a raspberry beret? The kind you'd find in a second-hand store?

deja_vroom

22:48 / 19.01.04

There's always space between the lines if you can read, Bed. I read too much, that's gotta be a side-effect...

For implying the meaning of "fannying around", see the concept of "context". Also, whichever "snarky intention" that was incipient in the tone of your other post was only made clear by your asnwer now, which came not in a light spirited way, but with a profusion of maybe some too patronizing "Awws" and funny inflekshuns. And who cares, really?

Damn, I'm being serious again, amn't I?

deja_vroom

15:16 / 26.01.04